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UNEQUAL TO
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not meeting requirements
Example:
unequal to the demands put upon him
Synonyms:
incapable; incompetent; unequal to
Classified under:
Similar:
inadequate; unequal (lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task)
Context examples:
Not unfrequently, through Emma's persuasion, he had some of the chosen and the best to dine with him: but evening parties were what he preferred; and, unless he fancied himself at any time unequal to company, there was scarcely an evening in the week in which Emma could not make up a card-table for him.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I am totally unequal to it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
When Emma afterwards heard that Jane Fairfax had been seen wandering about the meadows, at some distance from Highbury, on the afternoon of the very day on which she had, under the plea of being unequal to any exercise, so peremptorily refused to go out with her in the carriage, she could have no doubt—putting every thing together—that Jane was resolved to receive no kindness from her.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The rest of your note I know means nothing; but I am so unequal to anything of the sort, that I hope you will excuse my begging you to take no farther notice.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
